Two Ways to Win a $50 eGift Card from Sephora!

WINNER: The giveaway is closed now, and the winner is @the_rainebeaux! Congratulations, @the_rainebeaux! If you entered but didn’t win this time around, keep trying, and click here to enter any ongoing giveaways before you jet. 🙂

Good morning, young lady. 🙂 It’s the weekend, and wouldn’t ya know it? I feel a little out of it today, so please bear with me if you can. I’m not sure why, but it’s like everything’s moving in slow motion for me. I didn’t sleep poorly last night, so I don’t think that’s why. I just…don’t know, feel…slower…than…usual. And Tabs is really bothered about it, too, as you can tell from this very revealing pic:

I believe it accurately conveys how he feels about my mental struggles this morning: “Talk to the butt.”

See, when Tabs is having “one of those mornings,” he just flees to the safety of his cat tower and sleeps it off.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could do that sometimes? — flee to our cat towers.

I’m serious. I wish I had a giant cat tower built to human scale. It would have to be about 42 feet tall, though, with better carpeting, and would probably require an elevator because I ain’t climbing up the side of no 42-foot-tall cat tower. I’m not THAT crazy, LOL!

While I research construction costs, why don’t we have a little fun this morning and get this weekend off to a good start? 🙂 I think you know what that means. It’s…

One (1) Sephora eGift card containing $50 sent to the winner by email (international readers, you may opt to receive $50 sent by PayPal instead).

There are two ways to enter, and you can do both of them for two chances to win. First, you can enter by leaving a comment at the bottom of this post, a comment about anything at all, like, what do you do when you have “one of those mornings?” Have you ever worked on a ranch or a farm? — wait, I just asked that one last week. Seriously, how do I come up with these questions, LOL?! Have you ever worked on a farm? I mean come on, am I completely out of my mind? 🙂 I think you know how we do this by now. A comment about anything at all, but today, the wackier the better.

Second, you can enter by following me on Twitter @karenmbb and retweeting (RT) the following message:

Follow @karenmbb and RT to Win a $50 eGift Card from Sephora! http://bit.ly/p3QSYA

The deadline to enter is Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 11:59PM (PT).

Entrants must enter using a valid email address and/or Twitter account to win.

A maximum of two (2) entries per person — one within the comments at the bottom of this post, and a second entry via Twitter addressed to me @karenmbb.

Contest is open to individuals of any country who have reached the age of majority according to their local laws (18 in the United States with these exceptions: Alabama and Nebraska, 19; Mississippi, 21).

Sephora eGift Certificates can only be redeemed online and are not valid in stores or available for purchase or redemption in Canada. International winners may opt to substitute the Sephora eGift card prize for $50 sent directly to their email address by PayPal instead.

Tabs and I (heretofore referred to as “T-Money and K-Dawg”) will select one (1) winner at random from the entries either left in the comments at the bottom of this blog post or addressed to @karenmbb on Twitter.

The winner will be announced here within 48 hours of the deadline.

Void where prohibited by law.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

WINNER: The giveaway is closed now, and the winner is @the_rainebeaux! Congratulations, @the_rainebeaux! If you entered but didn’t win this time around, keep trying, and click here to enter any ongoing giveaways before you jet. 🙂

Two Ways to Win a $50 eGift Card from Sephora! / Originally published July 23rd, 2011

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Hi Karen! Love your blog and most especially TABS! I have actually worked on a farm- sort of. I am going back to school (career change!) to become a RVT and my school has a farm. It really is so much fun working with the sheep, goats, chickens and such. I have never had the opportunity to be around these kinds of animals and I was surprised at how much I actually enjoyed it! Looking forward to more great posts.

I have a teapot in the shape of a frog. When I was catsitting for my mom (I took her cat to my place for a few weeks), he kept trying to kiss the frog teapot! I think he thought it was a frog prince. 😛Mary recently posted … Zoya Adina Swatches & Review

I went to grab a popsicle last night, and my kitty jumped into the freezer. Poor bugger wants to take her fur coat off, it’s so hot! At least it’s slightly more bearable today than it was yesterday… but DAMN, Boston is HOOOOOOOOT.

I lived on a chicken farm for about a year with my grandparents in Ohio. Lemme just say that roosters don’t only crow at dawn, but throughout the day as well as into the night. It was difficult to sleep sometimes.

Never worked on a farm, but for as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated with celebrity deaths. Haven’t brought it up in discussion (much), but just thought I’d throw it out there. (Jonesin’ for eyeshadow to play in; these brushes won’t use themselves.)

When I have mornings like that I pull out my secret-girly-super-fun music that I would never be caught dead dancing and singing to (think 80s Madonna, early Britney Spears, and [my big secret] Hilary Duff!!!)

we adopted two kittens from the humane society about a month ago, and last night was the first night that one of them slept with us on the bed for part of the night (normally they just wrestle and fight with each other while we try our best to ignore it). so i can say that i didn’t really sleep that well last night and am having one of those mornings too! have a great weekend!!

Speaking of tabs and his quirks, my french bulldog is OBSESSED with shiny things! He seriously will stalk reflections on the wall of my computer, cell phone, his dog collar. Sometimes we’ll mess with him and shake the reflections and he’ll try to jump up the wall to eat them! Cheap fun and a good way to exercise him, lol.

Am addicted to watching Quest Crew (A dance crew) on Youtube lately. I know there are a few good ones (e.g. Poreotix and JabbaWockeeZ), but Quest can not only perform together in synchrony but also individually which, to me, makes them a cut above the rest 😀

And no, I’m not a dancer, I have no coordination to do so, but I do wish I could dance, especially like them!

Hi Karen! Goodmorning to you..but it’s 12:35 AM here in Manila,Philippines. I’m an avid reader of your blog & check it every night because of the time difference,I know it’s morning there when it’s night here so I check it before I sleep to catch your morning posts 🙂 Love the blog,more power to you & Tabs!

I’m getting a late start to my day, which is fine by me though. I’m just reading your blog, drinking my coffee. I love it when I have the time to drink my coffee and catch up on blogs, e-mail, facebook, etc.

Happy Saturday. This heat is is really making me cranky, plus I have a bad cold/flu? Who gets sick in JULY!?!?! Plus, I have to take my dog to the vet today so I’m not off to a very good start this Saturday. A Sephora gift card would really cheer me up, please? 🙂

When I let me dogs out this morning – I am the crazy chihuahua lady with 3! – My little Gidget had a ‘clinger’! It would not come off by itself and I had to lend a paper towel covered hand to help free her from her poop! Yuck!!

I’ve never worked on a farm, but I used to go to horse riding day camp in the summers when I was in elementary school. I learned horse riding, horse driving, car driving, then bike riding in that order. That is probably why I still say “whoaaaaaaaa” whenever I want any transportation to stop, be it organic or mechanical.

Karen, I have been reading your blogs everyday for the last three years!
I even have “Makeup and Beauty Blog” as a bookmark on my computer.

I grew up around horses and they are magical. I have two of my own.
Makeup and horses are my passion and because in the horse showing world
everyone is trying to look there best, they go hand in hand 🙂

Hay girl hay! When I have “one of those mornings” I usually look up some of my favorite hysterical youtube videos, or I go to the oatmeal.com for a good laugh, combined with my Relaxed Mind tea (by Yogi – I swear, it really is amazing).

Oh goodness, I need a pick-me-up so bad right now! Haha. I’ve had “one of those mornings” for the past week but I’m not doing a very good job handling it. Aside from visiting your blog… Your blog ALWAYS cheers me up! <3 today you've inspired me to actually do something about it! I think I'll pamper myself today… Take a nice bath filled with Lush products, use all my best lotions and my favorite perfume, do a face mask, give myself a mani/pedi… Yes, that sounds perfect for today :]

Hey Karen! My cat is acting so weird today. She keep licking my legs and the top of my foot. I have on some BBW Coconut Mango lotion on maybe that’s the reason. Whatever it is she is freaking me out lol! Thanks for listening boo.

When I have “one of those mornings”, if I can possibly swing it, I have a “beauty day”! I give myself a facial, deep condition my hair, give it a protein treatment, do a mani and pedi. I lounge around and read or watch movies and eat lovely, healthy foods that I try to prepare beautifully.

I am also having one of those mornings! Family drama. I brewed a little pot of french roast coffee and I am going to sit in the comfy chair and savor it while staring into space with my kitty on my lap. That’ll show em!

My son’s sleepover is tonight. Six eight- and nine-year-old hockey players hopped up on soda and birthday cake. Xanax, please?
A little retail therapy would certainly help me recover from this stressful experience!

My boyfriend just went to go work on a farm earlier this week! He’s a cook and his restaurant gets a lot of produce from this local organic farm, so he went to go check it out… And by check it out, I mean pull weeds! Lots and lots of weeds.. Apparently you get those when you don’t use pesticides. The plus side is he did get to take home about a dozen farm fresh eggs 🙂

I have never worked on a farm, but I used to visit my aunt & uncle in the Catskills all the time and they raised chickens, rabbits, geese, and even pigs a couple of years. Their next door neighbor (who’s property was on both sides of the road) was a dairy farm, so you’d see cows hanging out less than 100′ from their property all the time. Cows are cool. Pigs are big, smelly, & not as cool as cows.

Oh I really need this Gift Card for my Darling Daughter in Vermont.
She has worked on a farm and didn’t love it but has a huge garden at her house now.
She also has a Four month old.Boy and would never think of buying makeup with her limited funds.
Love love love your blog!!

My mom lives in San Diego, and they just had a groupon for one of the few Chamorro/Guamanian restaurants left in that area, so I bought her two. She’s gonna get her lumpia and adobo on (similar but not exactly the same as Filipino adobo). Am jealous. Might have to fly out there to help her eat it all. 🙂

Haha… I have ‘one of those mornings’ a lot! Luckily not today, though. I usually try to exercise it off.
I actually have worked on a farm! I went to a private school for a year (in 3rd grade) and we had gardens and farms that we worked on sometimes. We also helped to raise chickens, calves, and sheep. This was a Waldorf school, by the way, if you’ve ever heard of them. I also milked cows at a sustainable ranch in Costa Rica.

Where I live, it is soooooooo hot, I am staying indoors with the AC. Just an FYI, I bought the Dior spray foundation. I have major trouble with foundation, and this is my HG. Seriously flawless and I’m in love!

Woke up this morning in Kona, Hawaii….so can’t complain about anything. Time to hit the beach that’s right outside my resort room window. 🙂 Oh sure, and I expect a Sephora gift card, too. lol! By the way, UD Canonball mascara is the BOMB!! Not only is it the best waterproof mascara ever, it’s a great every day mascara! I’ve never tried a waterproof I loved until now…thanks for recommending it, Karen!

I like to eat with rice in both of my hands. I love eating with two hands, but my parents said that it’s only proper to each with one hand. I don’t like using utensil. I’m not sure if that’s the filipino way

I never worked on a farm, but I used to hear endless amount of stories about it from my mom. She said that it hurts it back endlessly. She wanted to stop but she couldn’t because it was her father’s job, and she was helping him

I love your blog! Thank you so much for all the great reviews! Oh and when I’m having “one of those mornings” I can usually overcome it with the perfect combination of coffee and beauty blog reading, lol.

Hmm, when I’m having one of *those* mornings if I have a bit of time I have a banana (there must be something in them that always makes me feel better!), do a bit of yoga, and finish it with a sweetsy coffee drink (special treat, not a regular thing) if I didn’t sleep well that night.

If there’s no time for that I cue up my favorite song on my iPod and ride it out till the afternoon. Hope you’re feeling better!

I just went the the FARMers market today, does that count? I didn’t buy anything, but that’s only because we’ve had so little nice weather that very few sellers had English Peas, and the ones that did looked anorexic (the peas, not the people) and were very expensive. I need my fresh pea fix!!

I adore your blog!! I read every.single.post. Thanks for the awesome giveaway. Hmmm something wacky..let’s see. I was born on the 4th of July. My husband’s bday is Xmas (poor guy) and I was born w/ a double collar bone..crazy, eh? 🙂 Have a great weekend!

With an 18 month old I don’t get to really have “one of those mornings” anymore…BUT if it’s been one of those days then I take a long hot bath ass soon as she goes to bed and let a glass of wine and bubbles work their magic!

OMG!! i love the blog. I am an addict and check frequently while at work :p dont tell my boss!! haha i also adore sephora. since moving to a city in the sticks for college i have become very familiar with their web page! keep on keeping on! xoxo

I’ve never worked on a farm, which is probably a good thing – I have one plant (basil) and I’m probably going to kill it. But I have had baby cows try to eat my shirt before – they’re so cute you let them do it, too.

My grandma used to raised chickens glad bless her soul back in the Dominican Republic, she used to send me every morning to fetch the eggs & one day the male rooster apparently saw me or got a good scent of smell anyways the rooster started plucking away at me, chased all the way in the yard I dropped a couples of eggs but I managed to clim on tree and save myself LOL. Iâ€™ll never forget that day, Iâ€™m really cautious now when I go around chickens 😀 Thanks for the chance. Have a great weekend!

I ate a roasted ant once. Just once. It was scratchy and awful and still had its legs, but since I tossed it as far back in my mouth as possible and refused to chew, my lipgloss was still totally delicious after the dry heaves were over! =)

Blugh. I had one of those mornings too. Everything seem to just go wrong. You know my makeup has never been so terrible it had to be redone? ………………..until this morning. Apparently the concealer (that looks really wrong) didn’t play well with my sunscreen and it looked…ugh, just weird and terrible and like a splatter mess. So I had to start all over and be even later to leave.

never worked on a farm! but when i was a little girl we used to go apple picking, cherry picking, starwberry picking, corn picking, basically we used to pick everything! and we had a vegetable garden and lots and lots of fruit trees!

when I have one of those mornings, I like to attend a yoga or pilates class. I know I know, it takes all forms of power and persuasion to get the butt off the bed and into workout clothes, not to mention actually getting to the place. But I find that after one session, I feel ready to face whatever the day has in store and actually have fun!

I really hate those mornings where I wake up and put on an outfit and hate it and put on another outfit and hate that one and put on another outfit. Sometimes I end up with 5 or 6 outfits on my bed that I discard before I find one that I like.

The crazier the better? Well, to be honest, the craziest thing I can think of telling you in this moment is that the capital of my teeny, tiny, pretty little country is both shaken and heavily stirred after the most unbelievable event ever.

I’m sure you’ve heard, but if not there was both a bombing and a wild shooting episode in Oslo, the capital of Norway, yesterday, and there really is hard to focus on anything else. To be honest, I feel kind of bad even entering your contest, but I guess it won’t do any harm..

(I by the way feel bad for this entry being my first comment here, but I haven’t read your blog for more than just a few weeks so I haven’t gotten to it yet…. I am reading it, though, every single bit!)

I have grown up around horses so the aroma is something I’m used to. I remember the first time I invited a friend for a sleepover. That lasted about 30 minutes. I found out later that she told her mother that we lived in a barn!

One “one of those days” I just run to my computer and start searching for music. Like good old classic funk tunes, and then I realize I know the sample and search for it, then I have some other brilliant idea to lose time on the net. After half an hour to one hour I’m cured and ready to work 😉 (ok, sometimes maybe after 3 hours!!)

I’m trying to find the perfect nude lipstick. I’m NC35 in MAC’s prolongwear spf 10 foundation, but I’ve been as dark as an NC44 in Studio Fix Fluid. I bought MAC Hue and then hated it the next day, but it’s okay if I wear a dusty pink lip pencil underneath. The search continues!

When my menagerie (3 kittens, 1 old-man cat, and 1 year-old puppy) aren’t in the mood to cheer me up, I have a fallback plan…the animal shelter I volunteer at! Tons of snuggly cats and kittens to cheer me up, and hopefully I cheer them up as well. Whenever I see the tabbies, I always get the urge to have them pose in pictures with makeup, like Tabs!

Hi Karen! How’s your Saturday so far? It’s already Sunday here in Malaysia and my Saturday was great…because I managed to buy 3 of the latest Paul & Joe Fall 2011’s lipsticks! (Talk about being greedy ey? :p) That means a hole in my purse but hey, a happier me! Have a great weekend! XD

Thanks for the giveaway! Today’s just one of those lazy Saturdays…it’s so hot here, there’s hardly anything else to do. I think we left the house for about an hour and a half, and otherwise have just been lounging around inside.

Taking the NY bar exam next week and I’m hoping to win $50 to spend as a reward for myself after spending this entire summer locked indoors studying (not to mention, terrible breakouts from stressing!) 🙁

It depends on how bad the morning is and what I have to do that day. If it was a Saturday, I would just get back into bed for a few hours. If I couldn’t fall back asleep, I would try to do something relaxing like watch a silly, chick flick or read a book.

If I have one of those days, then I must have 1.) A piece of dark chocolate. Richness = decadence. 2.) My favorite lipstick on (YSL Sheer Candy in Lush Coconut) because it just makes me feel a little bit prettier. 3.) A VERY deep breath. Then hopefully I can restart my day. Cocktails work too. 🙂

OK, I just need to rant for a minute, so feel free to ignore the rest of this comment (but it is here b/c a little perfume pick-me-up would really make the day brighter… keeping my fingers crossed).

One of my coworkers just suddenly quit a couple of weeks ago. No two weeks notice, no warning of any kind, just didn’t show up one day. She had legit reasons (single mom who already has another full-time job + working on a degree), but still, it left us in a bit of a lurch.

So I find out today that another coworker did the same thing yesterday– just called in and said she wasn’t going to show up anymore. So now we’re 2 people short at the busiest time of the year for us. Plus the fact that this 2nd person had a grant funded position and we don’t know if we’re going to be able to apply the rest of the grant to something else or if it is just gone now. PLUS the fact that I really thought I was getting to be friends with both of these people. But maybe that was just me being overly optimistic.

AND this means that tomorrow, when I’d normally be working with these two people, I will instead be working with the only 3 people in the city who can really irritate me, and inevitably will, and all 3 of them at once.

I’m planning to do a stint WWOOFing soon. It stands for Willing Workers On Organic Farms and basically, you go stay on farms anywhere in the world, and in return for your help on the farm, you get free food and board. Good way to see a new part of the world, methinks!

As for random comment: STILLLLLLLLLLLLL getting over the shock of HP finally ending. Call me the hugest Harry Potter geek EVER but I was in a state of denial, and now I’m still distressed D:!!!! (Also, don’t kill me, but Draco Malfoy’s my favorite character..haha.)

I saw Friends With Benefits and Captain America yesterday. FWB was good aside from the typical profanity and sex scenes (which of course should be expected in any “R” rated movie but especially in a movie with a title and topic like that lol; I’m only 18 so stuff like that are “new” to me). Captain America was AMAZING the story was on point and the acting and graphics were great . Not to mention Chris Evans is so fine!

So.. being from TEXAS most would think I ride a horse everywhere I go. Much to all of your dissapointment, I went to a friends ranch, rode on a horse, and had an uncontrollable migraine for days!!! If that doesnt show Im a city, I dont know what will!

This really isn’t farm related, but last month I was bit by a koala!! I’m a Canadian girl, doing part of my law degree in Australia. A few friends and I went to an animal sanctuary because we were dying to hold a koala and get our pictures taken. I went first and he bit me! His trainer said this meant he liked me, as male koalas get violent during mating season (!!)

I remember visiting a quail farm when I was in kindergarten. At the time, I really loved quail eggs. So when they gave out free quail eggs at the end of the session, I kinda went…crazy? And the teacher had to gently remind me to not take anymore, ha.

One of the trees in the front yard of my uncle attracts lots of bees every morning. When I was young, like about 4-5 years old and I don’t know what a bee is, I just decided to “catch” a bee with my bare hand. I was so good at it that I easily trapped a bee in my hand (or maybe there were just really lots of bees swarming the tree, lol) Unfortunately, the bee doesn’t seem to like being trapped in my hand and so it poked my palm with its stinger. You can’t even imagine how painful it was and all I can remember was that my palm was red and swollen.

Don’t work on a farm but this morning my cats woke me up at 5am when they decided that playing the Mario Andretti game across the bed was a fab idea. They then naturally proceeded to channel tabs and sleep the rest of the day. Beasts!

I have never worked on a farm, but every 4th of July we go to my cousin’s cousin’s house which is on a farm. The fireworks look cool because we’re out in the country and it’s nice and dark away from the city lights.

I grew up in a pretty agricultural area and while I didn’t grow up on a farm (We did have ducks and rabbits), my best friend had horses and chickens, and the school we went to took us to many farms to learn about the local dairy and crop farms in the local area in Oregon.

I randomly posted a YouTube video of my makeup collection yesterday. I finally got the courage to start postin ahha. It’s nothing big like a tutorial or review but it’s a step haha. It’s a slideshow of my collection and how I store it lol. Baby steps right? Loll

When I have a bad morning, I go for a nice long ru–…ok, who am I kidding?When I have a bad morning, I normally stay in bed until the morning is mostly gone or I force myself out of bed and avoid any eye/physical contact with my husband until I have a cup of tea (he’s British and got me hooked on the stuff) and some cereal.

I had the best day yesterday. First, hubby and I dropped the kid off with grandma. Freedom for two weeks! w00t! Next, I got to browse the beauty aisles at Target. We don’t ahve a Target where I live, so this is a treat. They ahd the Sonia Kashuk flat top brush I wanted a backup of on clearance for 5 bucks so I bought two (all they had left) plus the eyeshadow brush that was also on clearance. I also got another NatureLuxe foundation (a little darker this time for summer), some organix moroccan argan oil conditioner (awesome), that Caress body wash with juniper oil you reviewed recently (also nice), plus a couple more sports bras and another pair of yoga pants.

After Target, hubby and I went to three more state historic sites that were in the area. You know the numbered historic sites? The numbered ones listed here: http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21387? We’ve been working on visiting as many as we can. We’ve about finished Santa Barbara and Ventura counties with a couple of chunks taken out of Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo. Whenever we go out of town we check to see if we’ll be close to any! Yesterday we visited one in Newbury Park andf two in Simi Valley. Fun!

We finished with dinner at the Cheesecake Factory at the Oaks Mall on the way home. Today we’ll both finish up our project/test for summer term at scholl then see Harry Potter. Yay! Been waiting for this!

Old MacDonald had a farm, EE-I-EE-I-O.
And on that farm he had a cow, EE-I-EE-I-O.
With a moo moo here and a moo moo there
Here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo moo
Old MacDonald had a farm, EE-I-EE-I-O.

When I have “one of those” mornings, I usually like to take good care of myself, usually involving going on a run, eating well that day, or spending a few extra minutes on my makeup and hair. It helps to get through a rough day with a little more confidence. :]

I didnt have one of those mornings, But yesterday, I had one of those “afternoons” ugh. Couldnt get out of the funk, so I took a nap, and then shrugged past it, and went to the drive in with my hubby, and after that, it was much better 🙂

My Grandpa was a large animal vet. and when we were kids, he would let my brother and I go out with him on calls to different farms in South Dakota to look at cows, horses, and pigs. Cows still scare me because they move in the herd together and their heads are so big!

in Korea, my parents had pet chickens that would sleep on their backs with their wings open (so cute!) they had to leave them behind when they came to America, so they gave them to the church. don’t know what happened to them afterwards though 🙁Soo recently posted … Shot of the Day {Update}

What do you do when you have â€œone of those mornings?â€
If I don’t have to be anywhere, I just chill on the couch with my cats and a book. Otherwise I let myself have some chocolate for breakfast. 🙂
Have you ever worked on a ranch or a farm?
Other than milking a cow in Ireland once 15 years ago, nope.
I mean come on, am I completely out of my mind?
Yes, but we love you anyway. 🙂